Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

Flickr photo from Heipei. phase of the information society. The Pew Internet and American Life project has released a meaty report about Internet use profiles and types. activities such as blogging or managing their own Web pages What profile describes your Internet use habits? The advent of Web 2.0 is often heralded as the next.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Seeing it in action: For an example of all 5 of these tips in action, I posted on the NetSquared Community Blog earlier this week with a list of some of the feedback (mostly bad) that we had received from users taking part in the Community Vote phase of the FACT Challenge. Photo Credit: Flickr tableatny ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. We think that it is time to invite them to the “adults’ table”—even though this may entail a gawky “adolescent” phase. Note from Beth: Last week I published an interview with Lean Start Up author, Eric Ries, that talked about how the lean start up ideas apply to the nonprofit sector.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

And even if Google+ doesn’t turn out to be the Next Big Thing, referral traffic in the early adoption phase is high enough to make experimenting worth your time. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

If you are designing a new social media initiative, I would urge you to use the 4Cs Framework in the design and strategy phase itself. Perhaps, in phase one, you would want to start with a campaign built around Content and focused on Collaboration, with elements of co-creation and/ or collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

flickr photo courtesy of racoles Note from Beth: This week I've been researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements with others and invited guest blog posts on this topic. The 5 Phases of a Movement by Brian Reich of Thinking About Media. Five Stages for Social Movements by Training for Change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

Have someone able to work with TechBridge during the implementation phase. Image two: Lulu Pinney, Flickr Creative Commons. About TechBridge. Founded in 2000, TechBridge provides subsidized IT consulting along with donated software, and pre-negotiated rates from business partners like Accenture. Images one and three: TechBridge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

HTML code doesn't phase me as I've had over ten years playing with it, but it seemed like a lot of extra work (find the image url you like, cut and and paste it into the tag, and if the size isn't write -you're out of luck). (Not This brings me back to what I was trying to accomplish in the first place. Not everyone is.)

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. That's what led me on the next phase of my adventure. I met Jeska during the TechSoup planning meetings for the upcoming ???

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

After a phase of experimentation and pilot projects, I think any organization that is serious about audience participation has to examine how it recruits staff and what their tasks and roles are. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. The animal keepers run their blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Not only that, but online communities also tend to grow the fastest during the early adoption phase. Every second of every day, nonprofits on Facebook, Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , WordPress , Foursquare and other social media make obvious mistakes that are counterproductive to their presence on these sites. Please get training!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

After a phase of experimentation and pilot projects, I think any organization that is serious about audience participation has to examine how it recruits staff and what their tasks and roles are. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. The animal keepers run their blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. At the time of writing the book my hope was that Facebook Community Pages would be phased out, but they have since been given a redesign and now play a significant role in Facebook’s Graph Search. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Facebook Community Pages as discussed in the book have been phased out. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. At the time of writing the book my hope was that Facebook Community Pages would be phased out, but they have since been given a redesign and now play a significant role in Facebook’s Graph Search. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Flickr photo by Allain Bachellier. Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

I also cold-contacted people on Flickr with image reproduction requests, 100% of which were granted. The outline is an outlier because it was used as a planning tool and enjoyed lots of discussion among people who were interested in the book in its earliest phases.

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